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AIV helperbot information

HBC AIV helperbot14 assists with the management of vandalism reports. Edit the following parameters in the page header to control the bot's behavior:

RemoveBlocked: On to enable automatic removal of blocked users from the list. Any other value will disable this functionality (only in cases of bot malfunctions, please).
MergeDuplicates: On to enable automatic merging of multiple reports of the same person. Any other value will disable this functionality.
AutoMark: On to enable automatic marking of users with special IPs or membership in categories as defined at User:HBC AIV helperbot/Special IPs. Any other value will disable this functionality.
FixInstructions: On to enable automatic repair of the reporting instruction HTML comments in the User-reported section of the page, as defined at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/instructions. Any other value will disable this functionality.
AutoBacklog: On to enable the automatic switching on or off of the {{adminbacklog}} message. Any other value will disable this functionality. Associated parameters are:
- AddLimit: The number of vandalism reports at which the {{adminbacklog}} message will be made visible.
- RemoveLimit: The number of vandalism reports at which the backlog message will be disabled ({{noadminbacklog}}).

Bot removing entries when including a link to a blocked IP to show block evasion

At 13.44 - I added a report "43.247.122.64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) block evasion by 43.247.122.4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) same falsification of statistics - rangeblock requested"
At 13.48 - HBC AIV helperbot14 removed my request with an edit summary of "5 users left, rm 43.247.122.4 (blocked by Joyous!)"
It appears that the bot will not let me be helpful and show the edits by the original IP that the new IP is block-evading around
Can this problem be avoided or at least warned about? - Thanks _ Arjayay (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Arjayay: The bot just looks for the templates 'vandal', 'ipvandal' and 'user-uaa' in the report, and if any are blocked it removes the entire thing.

I think that you can use redirects like iplinks or IPvan, since that's not one of the 3 it uses. – 2804:F14:80E8:FC01:C4BA:71FE:6F4D:7E5E (talk) 16:51, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For this I just try to do either the IP range, and leave the former sock unlinked so that it gets admin eyes and they know what to do. Nate • (chatter) 17:51, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The official Wikipedia page for the Golden Spiral is being vandalized by fans of the show JoJo's Bizarre Adventure who purposefully change the name of the inventor of the Golden Spiral from Euclid the greek mathematician to a fictional character in the show known as Gyro Zepelli and this isn't tolerable

The main user contributing to this issue is known as Tukumslativian and the other being Goldminer24 2A02:C7C:66C8:B800:2D00:918E:8D03:ADC1 (talk) 20:01, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And now that a Reddit community spread this its only gonna be more people messing up the wiki page 2A02:C7C:66C8:B800:2D00:918E:8D03:ADC1 (talk) 20:05, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Golden spiral article semi-protected for two weeks. Favonian (talk) 20:12, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism and missinformation on the articles about argentinian nineteenth century parties

This is about these articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federalist_Party_(Argentina) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Party

The user Vif12vf keeps reverting my edits correcting the misconception that the Unitarian Party is left wing and the Federalist party is right wing. I have provided arguments in my comments on the edits and on my and his talk page but he just erases it.

No argentine historian has ever said that the unitarians were left wing, this is just a stupid childish interpretation. EmpyrosHunyadi (talk) 22:25, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EmpyrosHunyadi: This is not the page for reporting vandalism – you're looking for Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. This talk page is for discussing that page. Anyway, Vif12vf's edits don't seem to be vandalism. The two of you are having a content dispute, so please use the methods for resolving content disputes. I suggest starting a discussion at Talk:Federalist Party (Argentina) and/or Talk:Unitarian Party. jlwoodwa (talk) 22:46, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sleeper PR/spam accounts

I often come across sleeper PR role accounts while jumping between articles. Those that are used cyclically or only as needed under company's control. For example and go hibernate until there's a change they want to make. How should these sleeper accounts be handled? Sometimes they're accepted. Sometimes they're rejected as "stale" for not having edited for xx days, weeks, months. Asked at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Handling_of_promo_only_role_accounts_in_AIV also. Graywalls (talk) 15:27, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]